Eric Hosking award - Winner 'A marvel of ants' When Bence first tried to photograph leaf-cutter ants in action, he thought it was going to be easy. It wasn’t, but relishing the challenge, he found out as much as he could about their complex society and spent hours watching and following them in the Costa Rican rainforest

Photograph: Bence Máté/Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010

British wildlife photography awards 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/oct/06/british-wildlife-photography-awards-2010 EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY OCTOBER 7. Undated handout photo issued by British Wildlife Photography Awards of a wood mouse taken by Phillip Thomas which won the Wildlife in my Backyard category at the British Wildlife Photography Awards.

Timor-Leste scuba photo competition 2010. Around 30 mainly amateur photographers took part in East Timor's inaugural scuba photo competition from October 11 to 15, President Jose Ramos-Horta's latest project to kick-start tourism in his tiny, fragile state

GDT European wildlife photographer of the year 2010. The prize of the audience went to David Allemand and Christophe Sidamon-Pesson (France) for their image 'Snowy Owl - Harfang de neiges', which was highly commended in the category Birds

Photograph: David Allemand/Christophe Sidamon-Pesson /GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010